RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 OS

adeelarshad82 writes "RIM announced two new BlackBerry phones with high-res touchscreens, 1.2GHz processors and a new OS that offers better graphics than BlackBerries had before. The new BlackBerry 7 OS brings the 'liquid graphics' ability and offers '60 frames per second performance with instant UI action/response.' What's unfortunate about the new OS is that rather than being entirely new, BlackBerry 7 is just an upgrade to the existing BlackBerry 6 OS."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Minor devil's advocate here:

RIM has one thing that is top notch -- security. Android still isn't there when it comes to keeping data confidential. There are third party apps which *support* encryption, but only do so if the Exchange server mandates it.

If BlackberryOS can do this, I wish Google can do the same with Android. It would be as simple as having a key which is stored in some NVRAM that isn't part of the filesystem which is XOR-ed with the user's PIN. Then the internal filesystem for the user data is LUKS protected. Too many wrong guesses on the PIN, the key is zapped and recreated and the phone reformats itself. For the SD card, it would be easy to do a system similar to Windows Mobile and sport EncFS, or encrypt the card wholesale with LUKS, with a keyfile that is stored on the device, and can be easily backed up. This way, a device can be remotely erased, but the SD card content can be recovered if need be.

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[UnknowingFool]

They used it for Playbook. Considering how incomplete most reviewers regarded the PlayBook, if RIM has plans to replace their smartphone OS with it, it will take a few years.

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[ArhcAngel]

If you are on a BES they still can't read your email. They can intercept a copy and try to decrypt it but with today's technology it would take them a few years to do so.